| Framework | Supported Browsers | Ajax | Effects | Events | CSS | License | DL | RV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jQuery | IE6+, FF2+, SF3+, OP9+, CR1+ |  | | | | MIT & GPL |  |  | |
| MooTools | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF2+, OP9+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| Prototype | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF2+, OP9.25+, CR1+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| script.aculo.us | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF2+, OP9.25+, CR1+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| Dojo | IE6+, FF2+, SF3.2+, OP9.6+ | | | | | BSD & AFL | | | |
| Yahoo! UI Library | IE6+, FF3+, SF3+, OP9+ | | | | | BSD | | | |
| Ext | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF3+, OP9+ | | | | | GPL, Commercial | | | |
| qooxdoo | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF3+, OP9+, CR1+ | | | | | LGPL & EPL | | | |
| $fx() | IE7+, FF2+, SF3+, OP9+, CR1+ |  | | | | MIT & GPL | | | |
| scripty2 | IE6+, FF2+, SF3+, OP9+, CR1+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| AJS | IE5.5+, FF1+, SF3+, OP8.5+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| Archetype | IE7+, FF2+, SF3+, OP9+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| RightJS | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF3+, OP9.5+, CR1+ | | | | | MIT | | | |
| Glow | IE5.5+, FF1+, SF1+, OP8+, CR1+ | | | | | Apache 2 | | | |
| My Library | IE5+, FF1+, SF2+, OP7+, CR3+, iPhone | | | | | MIT | | | |
| DHTMLX | IE6+, FF2+, SF3+, OP9+, CR1+ | | | | | GPL | | | |
| Echo | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF3+, OP9.5+, CR1+ | | | | | Mozilla Public | | | |
| midori | IE6+, FF1.5+, SF2+, OP9+ | | | | | MIT | | |
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Features
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MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.
Components
MooTools includes a number of components but not all need to be loaded for each application. Some of the component categories are:
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Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.
Features
Prototype provides various functions for developing JavaScript applications. The features range from programming shortcuts to major functions for dealing with XMLHttpRequest. Prototype also provides library functions to support classes and class-based objects, something the JavaScript language does not have. In JavaScript, object creation is prototype-based instead: an object creating function can have a prototype property, and any object assigned to that property will be used as a prototype for the objects created with that function. The Prototype framework is not to be confused with this language feature.
script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library built on the Prototype JavaScript Framework, providing dynamic visual effects and user interface elements via the Document Object Model. It is most notably included with Seaside and Ruby on Rails, but also provided separately to work with other web application frameworks and scripting languages. script.aculo.us was extracted by Thomas Fuchs from his work on fluxiom, a web based digital asset management tool by the design company wollzelle. It was first released to the public in June 2005.
Source: Wikipedia
Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites. It was started by Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann, David Schontzler, and others in 2004 and is dual-licensed under the BSD License and the Academic Free License. The Dojo Foundation is a non-profit organization designed to promote the adoption of the toolkit.
Widgets
Dojo widgets are prepackaged components of JavaScript code, HTML markup and CSS style declarations that can be used to enrich websites with various interactive features that work across browsers:
Source: Wikipedia
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) is an open-source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. YUI includes several core CSS resources. It is available under a BSD License. Development on YUI began in 2005 and Yahoo! properties such as My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! front page began using YUI in the summer of that year. In February 2006 YUI was released for public use under BSD. It is actively developed by a core team of Yahoo! engineers.
The YUI Library project at Yahoo! was founded by Thomas Sha and sponsored internally by Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang; its principal architects have been Sha, Adam Moore, and Matt Sweeney. The library's developers maintain the YUIBlog; the YUI community discusses the library and implementations in its community forum.
Also associated with the YUI Library, the YUI Theater, founded and managed by Eric Miraglia, provides worldwide access to more than 50 talks by notable speakers on JavaScript and web development.
Features
The YUI Library is fully documented on its website; detailed API documentation accompanies the library download. It has six types of components: YUI core, utilities, UI controls, CSS components, developer tools, and build tools.
Source: Wikipedia
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Ext is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting. Originally built as an add-on library extension of YUI, Ext includes interoperability with jQuery and Prototype. As of version 1.1, Ext retains no dependencies on external libraries, instead making their use optional.
GUI controls
Ext includes a diverse set of GUI-based form controls (or "widgets") for use within web applications, these include:
Many of these controls are able to communicate with a web server using AJAX.
Source: Wikipedia
qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative framework for creating rich internet applications (RIAs). Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed. qooxdoo includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is Open Source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.
Framework
qooxdoo is entirely class-based and tries to leverage the features of object-oriented JavaScript. It is fully based on namespaces and does not extend native JavaScript types to allow for easy integration with other libraries and existing user code. Most modern browsers are supported (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, WebKit/Safari) and it is free of memory leaks. It comes with a comprehensive API reference, that is auto-generated from Javadoc-like comments and from the syntax tree representing the code. The fast and complete JavaScript parser not only allows doc generation, but is an integral part of the automatic build process that makes optimizing, compressing, linking and deployment of custom applications very user-friendly. Internationalization and localization of applications for various countries and languages is a core feature and easy to use.
Source: qooxdoo
$fx() is a tiny, self-contained Javascript library for animating HTML elements. It doesn't require any other library to function and [should] play well with any other libraries you are using (Prototype, JQuery, Moo tools, etc.).
$fx() allows you to alter any CSS property along a timeline, allowing animated effects to play in succession — i.e. in the order you want them to. It handles all of the headaches of timer controls and makes it easy to animate anything from simple, subtle animations to more elaborate animations. $fx() also offers the ability to combine adjustments to CSS properties for combined effects, and allows you to set multiple callbacks, offering more flexibility.
Features
Source: Inetcat
scripty2 is an open source JavaScript framework for advanced HTML-based user interfaces. Or simply put, scripty2 helps you build a more delicious web:
And there’s more coming! scripty2 is currently in alpha status, so APIs can change and there’s still a lot more functionality planned. scripty2 is a complete rewrite and reimplementation of script.aculo.us, with are modular structure intended to ease the development of highly customized user interface effects and behaviours.
Source: scripty2
AJS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library that is around 2 years old. It is inspired by MochiKit, but differs by being small and expressive. The current version is only 33 KB (uncompressed!), whereas MochiKit and other libraries such as jQuery, Mootools or Prototype is over/around 100 KB.
AJS includes:
But that's not all! AJS also features:
Source: AJS
Archetype is build as a second level Framework, it needs an "engine" Framework to work. First based on Prototype, now, Archetype can work on top of differents Framework thanks to an abstract engine abstraction. Currently you can use both Prototype and jQuery wrappers. These frameworks helps a lot in JS development, providing really good features to Javascript in a navigator environnement. For us, if we were in a "Java" world, the engine would be "java.lang" so nothing but what's needed to really start doing anything.
Most of the frameworks available provides at least one of this things:
All of this is very useful, but almost none of these frameworks are designed to help making a good clientside app.
When you work on the server side, you have plenty of frameworks to help you designing your application with a good structure, separating the view, the controller, the model, the front, the middle, and the back of your application. This ables you to have a more readable code, good practices, flexibility and efficiency in your work.
However, on the client side, there aren't all those kind of frameworks, and thus, JavaScript programming is a real pain.
Archetype is designed to fill these gaps on the clientside, in order for you to work in a good manner, with a lot of reusability.
Source: AJS
RightJS is a new JavaScript framework. It takes many old, battle proven features, wraps them nicely, mixes with some new ideas and features, and as the result provides a tiny, fast and easy to use tool.
RightJS is all about agility and rapid development. The main idea behind the framework is to create a simple tool with natural self explanatory interfaces and really low entry level. Tool that will help you do your job instead of expanding your mind.
Source: RightJS
Glow is a JavaScript library which aims to make working with JavaScript and the DOM easier. It tries to do this by abstracting common tasks, hiding cross-browser issues, and providing a set of user interface widgets.
If you want to a quick introduction to using Glow, try our getting started guide, or browse the API documentation to see the full range of features.
Source: BBC Glow
My Library is an outstanding browser scripting library (also known as an Ajax library). Feel free to make it your library! It is now offered under an MIT license.
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Source: My Library
DHTMLX is a JavaScript library that includes a full range of user interface components for building rich web applications. The components can be easily combined in a consistent dynamic interface with cross-browser support and high level of interactivity via Ajax. Each component is a separate module with its own script API, so you also may use them independently to implement some specific functionality of your application.
The library can be used with any server-side technology - PHP, Java, .Net, Ruby, Grails, Python, Cold Fusion, and so on. For some of them we have developed special adapters - dhtmlxConnectors - that help developers to integrate the client-side JavaScript components with the backend logic.
You can obtain and use DHTMLX components bundled or standalone. What's nice about using the Suite is that logic model of the components and API creation approach are similar - that simplifies understanding of the library and speeds up the development process.
Mutual integration of the components (for example, drag-n-drop between Tree, Grid and TreeGrid, or Windows integration into the Layout, Tabbar, or Accordion), in its turn, provides more opportunities for creation of user-friendly web interfaces. On top of that, DHTMLX framework provides skin inheritance, which means that a skin set for the Layout will be applied to the attached components as well.
Source: DHTML
Echo is an open-source framework for developing rich web applications. From the developer's perspective, Echo behaves as a user interface toolkit--like Swing or Eclipse SWT. AJAX technology is employed to deliver a user experience to web clients that approaches that of desktop-based applications. Echo applications can be created entirely in server-side Java code using a component-oriented and event-driven API (applies to Echo2 and Echo3) or as client-side applications written in JavaScript (applies to Echo3 only). Echo2 is the current stable release of the Echo platform.
Echo3 is the next generation of the Echo platform. Echo3 features the ability to create applications in either client-side JavaScript or in server-side Java. It offers superior performance to Echo2, and a substantially easier API for creating custom AJAX components that will use custom HTML and JavaScript.
Features
The YUI Library is fully documented on its website; detailed API documentation accompanies the library download. It has six types of components: YUI core, utilities, UI controls, CSS components, developer tools, and build tools.
Source: Echo
midori is an ultra-lightweight JavaScript framework that gets the job done without getting in your way.
Top 10 Things you can do with midori:
Source: Midorijs
